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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2010-02-22 21:07
Can anyone recommend some good studies for the chromatic scale? I need to get it more even and faster! Thanks.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-02-22 21:22
You don't really need a study book. Use a metronome, practice up and down from low e to throat tone e over and over, slowly moving up to fast. Then add an octave and do the same, then add the next octave and do the same. You could do variations on this but thats the idea. Practice each octave seperately, than do two octaves and finally do all three octaves. When you do this make sure you're doing it correctly, keeping your fingers relaxed, not wasting motion, keeping fingers close to the keys, etc. Use a mirror if necessary to aid you. Don't increase the speed until you have it perfect. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2010-02-23 01:48
I would like to recommend the approach taken by Fernand Gillet in his scale studies. Basically, you play chromatic (and other) scales focusing on each interval while pausing to prepare for the next section. Done in a complete manner, it does a remarkable job of helping eveness. A complete description is found concerning the flute version at http://www.joearmstrong.info/GILLET21rtf.htm
The book for clarinet is available at Luyben's according to their web site.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
Post Edited (2010-02-23 01:51)
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Author: sdr
Date: 2010-02-23 03:44
"The Clarinet Chromatic Machine" by Kalman Opperman
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-02-23 10:55
Gino Cioffi said that one of the best technical exercises requires no book. Do short stretches of chromatic scales -- 4 notes up and back down, repeated until you can do it with minimum finger movement and maximum relaxation. Then move it up a half step. Then do groups of 5 and 6.
Ken Shaw
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Author: weberfan
Date: 2010-02-23 17:31
In line with Ken Shaw's suggestion:
Start with low E and play up to C.
Then, C to G#
G# to E
E to C
C to E.
Then higher, as you choose.
I often start my practice sessions with the chromatic scale, playing one or two sections, up and down, up and down. By playing in sections, you can easily increase comfort and speed over time.
Post Edited (2010-02-25 02:23)
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-02-23 18:58
Exercises that drive me nuts are in Kalmen Opperman's Velocity Studies, Intermediate book.
Starting loud, on low E, play up 4 semitones, then back down. Soften to p and repeat. Note that you land on F.
Starting on the F, repeat the 4 up and 4 down Loud/Soft cycle, ending on F#.
NOW, you start in the F#, but it is now Gb, and go 4 up/ 4 down.
Continue the loud/soft cycle with each repeated pair climbing a semi-tone until you've thoroughly covered you playing range.
Maddening.
But do it slowly in 1/8 notes starting at 1/4 = 56 with lots of room to speed up WHEN you have it all even.
Bob Phillips
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Author: tdinap
Date: 2010-02-24 21:55
I often warm up with an exercise that I was told is from a Stubbins book, though I just learned it from my teacher from memory.
It's similar to those above, with slight tweaks:
Start on low E, do a chromatic scale to low G# in quarter notes up and down, so it lasts two measures of 4/4 time. The next two measures should be eighth notes, playing this pattern twice, and finally two measures of sixteenth notes, thus playing the pattern four times. Take a breath, move up a half step, and repeat.
It's quick, and quite simple. For me, it's more useful for maintaining chromatic scale facility than developing it, but it's very nice as part of a quick finger warmup.
Tom
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2010-02-25 02:11
The first exercise in the JeanJean Vade Mecum is good too, in a very isolated way.
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2010-02-25 06:34
I had an introductory lesson with Dr. Gary Gray from UCLA today. He had mentioned a fantastic warmup exercise that he had come up with is to start low E and do sixteenth patterns like this - E F F# G, F F# G G#, F# G G# A, etc, etc all the way to high G, then back down to low E. Seems like a great exercise, and he had said that this helped him so much in passages like Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie. Definitely my new warm up scheme
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